The mark was forced. The choice was hers.

Three months after claiming her place in the Silverpeak pack, Calla has built a life she never expected—a bond with Alpha Dax that defies every rule the elders set, allies forged through stubbornness and kitchen diplomacy, and a tenuous peace that costs her constant vigilance to maintain.

Then the rogue pack strikes.

Ambushed on a mountain ridge, Calla is forcibly marked with ancient runes—the Ashkari, a magical inheritance burned into her skin without her consent. The runes are a countdown. In ten days, they will complete their overwrite of her blood, transforming her into something the pack world hasn’t seen in three centuries: a Valdris carrier, heir to a founding bloodline the elder council systematically erased.

The council wants to bind her. The rogue pack wants to claim her. Calla wants to survive on her own terms.

As the countdown accelerates, Calla uncovers a truth that reshapes everything she knows about the pack system: the bonds she’s been told are sacred were originally designed as partnerships, not chains. The rituals the elders call tradition are corruptions of a founding magic built on consent. And the Rite of Reclamation—a ritual the council tried to destroy—could restore the balance that was stolen three hundred years ago.

But performing the Reclamation means defying the council, trusting the people who violated her, and standing at the center of a magical system powerful enough to reshape the world.

It means choosing—when everyone else has been choosing for her.

Marked by the Pack is Book Two of the Moonbound Series—a paranormal romance where consent isn’t negotiable, alphas earn their authority, and love is the most powerful magic of all.

Content note: This book contains themes of bodily autonomy, forced magical marking (non-consensual), institutional gaslighting, and consensual intimate scenes. The narrative centers the heroine’s right to choose and does not romanticize violations of consent.